Briccetti says the race is “critical”.
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Gov. Cuomo is willing to give businesses a tax cut to soften the impact of his plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. “Fifteen dollars an hour will be the highest statewide rate in the nation and will herald a new economic contract with America, and it’s about time”. “But mainly liberal New York state voters like the idea by a wide margin”, Quinnipiac pollster Maurice Carroll said in a statement.
“That could be a real win-win”, Cuomo told the gathering, arguing as well that the higher wage would pump $15.7 billion into the state economy. If approved by the state legislature, the increase would be phased in gradually.
Now the state minimum wage is $8.75 an hour.
But where some are seeing Cuomo’s “come to Jesus” moment, others are seeing his latest move in a more cynical light, especially New York State GOP Chairman Ed Cox.
32BJ is a property services union that has 4,500 members throughout Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Sullivan and Westchester counties. We don’t have a king of New York.
“Retailers are concerned about the effect of a $15-an-hour threshold on the industry’s ability to create and provide jobs”, council officials said. “We have a governor of New York”.
This would mirror a state order signed final week that applies exclusively to the fast-food business.
The problem is, experts have been divided on if increasing the minimum wage actually helps lower-income individuals. “‘If he succeeds in raising the minimum wage to $15 statewide, it would change the lives of millions of low-wage workers”.
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The current minimum wage debate comes only two years after the last one was decided. “Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour will add fairness to our economy and bring dignity and respect to so many hard-working people who have been forced to live in poverty for too long”.
